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0 pointspron6y ago0 comments

The support license was changed to a subscription model that lowered prices after 7 and 8 were out of the ~5-year free public updates period. Companies wishing to stay on old versions and buy support for them pay less than they did or expected to before the change.

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blinkingled6y ago· 2 in thread

https://www.oracle.com/assets/java-se-subscription-pricelist...

Well with per core licensing combined with monthly subscriptions it's not that cut and dry that you will pay less. I can't remember what we paid for Sun Java in licensing but it wasn't per core.

pronOP6y ago

Java 7 required payment for support for four years before the license change [1]:

> The price is $25 per month per processor for servers and cloud instances, with volume discounts available. ... The previous pricing for the Java SE Advanced program cost $5,000 for a license for each server processor plus a $1,100 annual support fee per server processor, as well as $110 one-time license fee per named user and a $22 annual support fee per named user (each processor has a ten-user minimum).

So from (1,100 + 22 * 10) per year per processor + (5,000 + 110 * 10), the cost went down to $300 per processor per year (no one-time fee, no per-user license). That's a >4x drop in price (of course, there were, and are, various bulk discounts, but it's a big price reduction nonetheless).

[1]: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3284164/oracle-now-require...

blinkingled6y ago

Was old Java license per Processor or Per Core? Because the new one is Per Core. So if previously I had 4 sockets with 4 cores per socket - I paid 4x$LICENSE - now I am paying 16x$LICENSE. No?

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